Organ trade ‘entrenched’ in Sri Lanka

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One of the world’s leading experts on human organ trafficking has said that
the illegal trade remains “deeply entrenched” in Sri Lanka, which is on an
international watchlist of countries where abuses are believed to be
widespread.

Jeremy Chapman, a former president of the Transplantation Society who helped
to draft an international treaty in 2008 outlawing the trade, said that
health authorities in the country appeared to be merely paying lip service
to strict international rules designed to stamp out the practice.